Hannah Whitaker

M+B is pleased to present Live Agent, Hannah Whitaker’s second exhibition with the gallery. Each work was shot on a single sheet of 4 x 5 film, through layered exposures and in-camera masking.

Hannah Whitaker (b. 1980, Washington D.C.) received her BA from Yale University and holds an MFA from ICP/Bard College. Solo exhibitions include Cold Wave at M+B, Los Angeles; Verbs and The Fifth Hammer at Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; The Use of Noise at Thierry Goldberg, New York and Limonene at Locust Projects, Miami. In February, Whitaker will participate in Public Art Fund’s citywide exhibition, Commercial Break in New York. Other group shows include those at Casey Kaplan, New York; Galerie Xippas, Paris; Flowers Gallery, London; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Higher Pictures, New York; Tokyo Institute of Photography and Rencontres d’Arles in France, where she was nominated for the Discovery Prize. In 2014 her work was selected for inclusion in the prestigious photography exhibition Foam Talent in Amsterdam. She co-edited issue 45 of Blind Spot magazine and co-curated its accompanying show at Invisible Exports in New York. Whitaker has been featured in Frieze Magazine, Modern Painters, Time Magazine, Huffington Post, Libération and Art Review. The artist’s first monograph, Peer to Peer, was recently published by Mörel Books. She is a contributing editor for Triple Canopy, a collective included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Hannah Whitaker lives and works in Brooklyn.